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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2019
Chang Bing Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, Changhua County, TW;
Atul Kumar, Changhua County, TW;
Yen-Yu Wang, Changhua County, TW;
Hurng-Sheng Wu, Changhua County, TW;
Kai-Che Liu, Changhua County, TW;
Shih-Wei Huang, Changhua County, TW;
I-Chun Lee, Changhua County, TW;
Wan-Chi Hung, Changhua County, TW;
CHANG BING SHOW CHWAN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, Changhua County, TW;
Abstract
A fusion-imaging method for radiofrequency ablation is provided, including: obtaining preoperative volume image of an individual; reconstructing a virtual three-dimensional model of a target area of the individual according to the preoperative volume image; creating a global reference frame by a tracking device and registering the virtual three-dimensional model to the global reference frame; obtaining an ultrasound image of the target area by using an ultrasonic probe and tracking the ultrasonic probe by the tracking device in order to register the ultrasonic image to the global reference frame; capturing a virtual corresponding image corresponding to a portion of the virtual three-dimensional model along a plane of the ultrasonic image; and overlapping the ultrasonic image and the virtual corresponding image and simultaneously displaying the overlapping image and a virtual radiofrequency ablation probe model.